Kenlead is building a packaging film plant in Qantara West in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, Egypt, on a 170,000 square meter site with EGP 4.16 billion of self-financed investment. Operations start with two lines and output is targeted to reach 48,000 to 60,000 tonnes a year by 2027.

UFlex is preparing to start commercial production by the end of 2026 at a new US$126 million, 30-acre aseptic packaging plant in Ain Sokhna, Egypt, with annual capacity of 12 billion packs. The plant will be Asepto's second manufacturing base after India.

Eroğlu Global Holding signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a carton and packaging factory in Qantara West Industrial Zone, with a $175 million investment and about 2,000 direct jobs. The plant will span 70,000 square meters.

Cairo Company for Packaging Materials (Cobac) plans a new factory with an investment of EGP 2.8 to 3 billion, which will raise its total BOPP film capacity to 67,000 tonnes per year and support exports to Europe and the US.

Turkish company UR-SA signed an investment contract with Egypt's SCZone to build a 35,000 square meter industrial textiles and plastic packaging plant in Qantara West, with $20 million investment and 1,000 expected jobs.

Huhtamaki Egypt received a Golden License from the Egyptian Cabinet to build a molded fiber packaging plant using recycled wastepaper in Sadat City, with EGP 1.47 billion investment and over 61 direct jobs. Operations are planned to start in August 2026.

Massoud Steel signed an agreement to establish a metal packaging factory in the Sokhna Industrial Zone, Egypt, with a total investment of USD 19 million. Operations are expected to start in Q1 2026 and create about 130 direct jobs.

The Egyptian Cabinet granted Huhtamaki Egypt a Golden License for a new 21,700 sqm molded fiber packaging factory in Sadat City, Monufia Governorate, valued at about EGP 1.5 billion including EUR 24 million foreign investment. Production will include paper fruit trays, cup carriers and egg cartons.

Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals (SIDPEC) of Egypt and Ran Gas Limited of Nigeria plan a joint $30 million plant in Alexandria to produce one million LPG cylinders per year, mainly for export to Nigeria from 2027. The information comes from an unnamed government official.

Egypt's Trade and Industry Minister inaugurated the first phase of a water pump factory built by Xylem, worth EGP 300 million ($9.7 million), on 22 May 2023. The plant will serve Egypt and export half its output to the Middle East and Africa.

Egypt's Ibda initiative signed a shareholder agreement with Spain's Coperci, part of Mondragon, to build Egypt's first gas safety valve factory with capacity of 15 million valves and an investment of about $7.6 million, scheduled to open in April 2023.

Taiwanese firm Richy, with Egypt's Al Arabi Group, plans an air conditioner compressor plant in the Kom Abu Radi industrial zone in Beni Suef, Egypt, with total investment of $33 million and a capacity of 6 million compressors per year. Production is planned to start in 2024.

Simplex for Industrial Solutions and Software announced a new 5,000 sqm CNC machine factory in the 10th of Ramadan City Industrial Zone, Egypt, with planned investments of EGP 100 million to raise production and export to about 15 countries over three years.

H.B. Fuller announced a strategic investment in a new adhesives manufacturing plant at CPC Industrial Park in Cairo's 6th of October industrial city. The 37,000 m2 facility is set to start full production in the last quarter of 2022 and will double production capacity.

Egyptian sanitary ware and plumbing maker Valio (Faliou) has leased a new 1,200 sq m factory in Tenth of Ramadan City, to start operating in July 2021, adding capacity and a new component line to cut imports.

Bereeq, a unit of Raya Holding, plans to open a second plastic recycling plant in 6th of October City, Egypt, with a 250 million EGP investment by the end of 2019. The plant is intended to double the company's production capacity.